NUMENA OF NORTH AMERICA

An audiovisual guide to the avian soul of North America.

From the minds of Ethan Linck and Ben Freeman, inspired by Aldo Leopold's (1937) description of "the numenon of the Sierra Madre: the thick-billed parrot".

Spatial data: U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Audio: xeno-canto
NUMENA OF NORTH AMERICAnu·me·non

alt. noumenon, Greek νοούµeνον, from νοῦς, meaning "mind", "perception", or "sense"

In the metaphysics of German philosopher Immanuel Kant, a numenon or Ding an sich ("thing-in-itself") is an entity the existence of which is not contingent upon human perception. Numena are contrasted with objects of the senses, that is, phenomena. In this sense, we regard numena as encapsulating the ineffable essence of a thing or, in this case, a place.

Click a region to hear the song of its people.